But not necessarily Shaker celibacy. In 2009, Kittie Lonsdale, a small-space designer, left behind a 4,500-square-foot home in Dallas and moved herself, her business and her “microsize dog,” a 10-pound Shih Tzu whose raincoats, treats, leads and sleeping box “take up more real estate than anything else,” into a 225-square-foot studio in Tudor City. Ten days a month, her husband joins her from Dallas, the headquarters for his private investment firm.

A television show I noticed followed a guy who served evictions. A crew. They served a midget due to unreasonably high activity. Upon entering the rented property they discovered the guy had subdivided. In half. Horizontally. He turned the bedrooms into two bedrooms at half height and rented to two midgets, but there were midgets running all over the place. They all had a good deal going there, they all liked it, but there were just too many of them.

I live in NY in a 2 bedroom apt. It's not 225 square feet, but its not huge. I can't believe the premium NYers pay to live i such tiny cramped places.She probably pays more for that 225 square feet than she does for her huge sprawling house.

"Living small in New York becomes an exercise in craftiness, and discovering multiple uses for a surface.""What others may see as deprivation, Mr. Moore and others have reframed as pride, with Shaker-like design values of simplicity and utility."

Turning stupidity in to a virtue. Get rid of rent control and other restrictive regulations and landlords would actually invest in livable and for NYC reasonably affordable apartment buildings. My cousin's 450 sq ft upper west side apartment looks almost like a palace compared to the dolled up prison cell.

I live in a 225 sq ft studio apt on the Upper West Side. I bought it in 2001 and pay less than $600/mth for maintenance and taxes. Way less than that in the early years. With a small place, I did not have to bear the cost of much furnishing, just a bed, sofa, TV, etc. Cost of utilities is negligible.

In 10 years I saved enough to become financially independent and retire at age 47. Meanwhile, the value of my apartment has more than doubled and is worth more than the average 3 bedroom house elsewhere.

So apartment size and even average cost of living of a particular city is not necessarily relevant to discussions of financial smarts.

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